Patient Confidentiality

Correspondence and papers relating to the confidentiality of medical records, notably exchange of patient information for a doctor's defence case, data accumulation without securing confidentiality, computers and privacy, medical records and insurance, examples of breaches of confidentiality by GPs, individual cases of breaches of confidentiality at hospitals, government proposals for new safeguards to confidentiality of patients personal health information with comments by the Patients Association, a case of access by the clergy to a hospital patient's records and reaction of the Hospital Chaplaincies Council.

Includes correspondence with the DHSS, BMA, other associations and various Family Practitioner Committees, Elizabeth Ackroyd's comments on the Consumer Association draft report 'Privacy of Personal Information' 1980, magazine articles, newspaper cuttings, DHSS press releases, and consultative draft document by the Association of Health Care Information & Medical Records Officers, 'Model Policy on Confidentiality for Patient Related Information' Jul 1985 with comments by the Patients Association.

1973-1985

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